do not think our organization as a body
is at all responsible for what took place last night I feel that,
since the President was our guest, it is our duty to express our very
deep regret for the incident. I ask, therefore, that, without
discussion and without further speech, there shall be concurrence on
the part of the convention with the Official Board in sending a letter
of regret to the President."

The convention agreed to this instantly with but one dissenting and it
was ascertained that she was not only not a delegate but not a member
of the association. This justified the general opinion that if there
had been any hissing the night before it was done by some of the large
number of outsiders in the audience. The letter signed by Professor
Frances Squire Potter, as corresponding secretary, read as follows:

To President William Howard Taft,

My dear Mr. President:

The enclosed resolution, introduced by the Committee on
Convention Resolutions, was passed unanimously by the National
American Woman Suffrage Association today at the opening of its
morning session. I am instructed by the unanimous vote of the
Official Board and of the delegates now assembled to send you
with the resolution this official communication.

The official board and delegates were but a small part of the
very large gathering to hear your greeting last evening but as
the representatives of the association these delegates feel great
sorrow that any one present, either a member or an outsider,
should have interrupted your address by an expression of personal
feeling, and they herewith disclaim responsibility for such
interruption and ask your acceptance of this expression of regret
in the spirit in which it is given.

The letter was sent in the afternoon by messenger across Lafayette
Square, which separated the Arlington from the White House, and the
next morning the following answer was received:

The White House,
Washington, April 16, 1910.

My dear Mrs. Potter:

I beg to acknowledge your favor of April 15. I unite with you in
regretting the incident occurring during my address to which your
letter refers. I regret it not because of any personal feeling,
for I have none on the subject at all, but only because much more
significance has been given to it th